Published By: Manilla PressPages: 288Released On: 15/07/2025 She was a woman who took no interest in spinning or housekeeping. She wanted to rule a ruler and command a commander — Plutarch Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant Roman family. Raised in the countryside, she longs for a life of intrigue and influence.Continue reading “Fulvia – Kaarina Parker”
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Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 400Released On: 08/05/2025 Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story. Then when her father dies, willing that Cleopatra rule with herContinue reading “Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons”
The Strange Case of Jane O – Karen Thompson Walker
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 352Released On: 06/03/2025 If the one thing you can trust is your memory, what happens when you forget? A young woman, Jane O, arrives in a psychiatrist’s office. She’s been suffering a series of worrying episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations and an inexplicable sense of dread. But as the psychiatrist struggles toContinue reading “The Strange Case of Jane O – Karen Thompson Walker”
Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 256Released On: 09/05/2024 March 2020. Annie is alone in her house as the world shuts down, only the ghosts of her memories for company. But then she receives a phone call which plunges her deeper into the past. 1959. Annie and Rita are student nurses at Fairlie Hall mental hospital. WorkingContinue reading “Hold Back The Night – Jessica Moor”
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 160Released On: 04/07/2023 When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop. Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover’s paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, theContinue reading “Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa”
The Illusions – Liz Hyder
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 400Released On: 22/06/2023 Bristol, 1896. Used to scraping a living as the young assistant to an ageing con artist, Cecily Marsden’s life is turned upside down when her master suddenly dies. Believing herself to blame, could young Cec somehow have powers she little understands? Meanwhile Eadie Carleton, a pioneering early film-maker,Continue reading “The Illusions – Liz Hyder”
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina
Translated By: Lucy RandPublished By: Manilla PressPages: 416Date Released: 25/06/2020 We all have something to tell those we have lost. When Yui loses her mother and daughter in the tsunami, she wonders how she will ever carry on. Yet, in the face of this unthinkable loss, life must somehow continue. Then one day she hearsContinue reading “The Phone Box at the Edge of the World – Laura Imai Messina”
Mrs England – Stacey Halls
Published by: Manilla PressPages: 419Date Published: 10/06/2021Date Read: 20/06/2021 West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes on a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adaptsContinue reading “Mrs England – Stacey Halls”
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